Jette Clover, a well-known, award winning European fiber artist, has just won a major prize: Quilt Japan! Her edgy and contemporary work cites graffiti and urban landscapes. Clairan Ferrono interviewed her for this blog.

ArtPrize, the radically open international art competition decided by public vote and expert jury, Oct. 9th held the Seventh Annual ArtPrize awards, revealing the winners of $500,000 in prizes. The Grand Rapids Civic Theatre, Grand Rapids, Michigan was filled with event supporters and collaborators, to honor the artists who shared…

Since one of our own won ArtPrize a couple years ago, fiber has been making tremendous inroads in higher profile venues and events. At this years ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan there is a venue and curated exhibition devoted to fiber: Processing Fiber. This is a high energy showing within…

SAQA’s Benefit Auction is now entering the second week of bidding! At 2pm EDT today, Section 2 quilts will be available for bidding for $750. Each day of the week, the price drops. Monday: – $750, Tuesday – $550, Wednesday – $350, Thursday – $250, Friday – $150, Saturday -$100.…

Don’t forget you can still enjoy seeing many SAQA members create their Benefit Auction art works on video at SAQA’s YouTube Channel. Here is Shelly Burge at work on hers:

Jo Drueke recently shared the origins of her donation piece Going Deep: Drueke: My inspiration for this piece actually came from a weed I pulled out of my garden! The root system of this small plant fascinated me. I am experimenting with various paints on various fabrics and I selected canvas…

SAQA writer Clarian Ferrono had another chance to interview an artist who donated a piece to this year’s Benefit Auction: Morck: The Magic of Crows was one of those serendipitous happenings that I especially enjoy when working creatively. I belong to Fibervision, a small fiber art group. At a meeting…

Clairan Ferrono interviewed Sandy Snowdon about her SAQA auction donation piece, Ramshackle Hillage: Snowdon: During the last two years I have been developing my Ramshackle series. The first one started with a Benefit Auction piece. The sort of happening that feels like the work falls out of the sky and…